(January 4, 2017 at 4:28 pm)Drich Wrote:(January 4, 2017 at 12:13 pm)Emjay Wrote: Thank you. I was just curious about your perspective on that (and developing my own) but not referring it to any particular decision... just interested in the process, as I always am. That's kind of how I would envisage it as well... as like dominoes.
Quote:But in regards to God's being perfect only in that he does not sin, I'm not sure what you mean.That is how "perfection" is measured when Speaking of God. Without sin.
Quote: I take God to be the creator of the notion of sin, in the sense that without the humans he creates (or other beings... if he created angels as well), there can be no sin. In other words he sets the rules his creations have to abide by... and those rules are whatever offends him.No. We do not have to abide by rules we do not fathom. That is what the tree of KNOWLEDGE represented. They were made aware of Good and evil. With this awareness comes responsibility
Quote:So are you saying that he is perfect because he abides by his own rules or are you saying that sin is somehow an objective concept, separate from both God and man, that both have to abide by?Neither.
I am saying God is perfect or rather the divine standard. Because He is a divine standard He sets the rules of perfection.
Okay, I understand what you mean by divine standard; the rules reflect what he is.
So how does the Ten Commandments fit into this as compared to the tree of knowledge and good and evil? That's what I was talking about by rules of sin that his creations have to abide by.
